Loving One's Neighbor and Multicultural Orientation

Audio Transcript: The Blessing of Pure Motivations

What is a pure heart the idea behind pure Barros me Old Testament requirement that a sacrifice be pure appear heart is devoted to Christ appear heart is cleanse on a regular basis through forgiveness of pure heart respond to the direction of the Holy Spirit a pure heart is willing to change a similar description of purity was used when Jesus called Nathaniel to join his disciples do you describe an angel as a pure man possessing no deceit on 127. The promise was that a pure heart creates clear vision so that we can see God On the one hand faith in Jesus Christ alone makes us pure or innocent before gone on the other hand we bear responsibility in keeping our hearts claimed by setting the focus of our hearts on Christ we often think of purity in heart as a description associated with personal holiness and piety purity does include these factors another namin understanding purity of heart is motivation our motivations can easily disguise themselves from our side because we naturally want to view our motives this pure and gladly when reality they may not be. Why do we do what we do motivation theories have contemplated this question for over a century some point to meet the needs they steer specific people are motivated by tunes to meet since cool social face will cognitive or effective need the goal is to achieve the feeling of these needs in some reliable and tangible way social influence can be a source of motivation the power of social influence wrath and a persistence are to be accepted and to be connected with other meaningful people peer pressure is a common form of social influence and serve as a potent source of motivation for teenagers and young adults transcendent reasons are sensitive or with privileges motivations were desired to achieve a virtue of lifestyle transcendent money vacation may or may not appeal to our desires transcendent motivation all through requires personal sacrifice and may require irrational or nonsensical actions on the part of the people the goal is to achieve something transcendental value such as the favor of God or eternal bliss drug or behind motivation is expectancy we do certain things with the expectation of a positive dishonorable predictable outcome Victor broom proposed expectancy theory for applications in the business world the premise is simple. And employee motivation is an. Come to and identify an action or effort will likely result in the desired outcome 3 superior performance in pursuing had been assigned action will increase the likelihood of obtaining the desired outcome rooms model was with application in the business world than the theory works in other areas of life to we have a goal in mind need social influence or transcendent we determine a path that will likely result in the desired outcome then we engage in any number of actions attempting to attain the goal which was early on in the quality of our performance matters wasting simply stars for a lot will set of behaviors and skills they called us to experience that is are the outcome and will likely repeat success in the future this is the foundation of habits and addictions the Bible describes how to meet our needs and healthy ways but human nature life shortcut and actually resists God's instructions because his way because his way considers the needs of others and requires say a primary concern of all in human nature itself. The problem of the verse a was the pure in heart will see God how will the pure in heart seeing dime 1st those who are in Christ are among the pure in heart and will seek to hide in the sands of eternity with God 2nd those who are pure in heart will see God's intervention and life sometimes God's intervention comes in meeting the sometimes God's intervention comes in helping people break free of one healthy behaviors and fiction they have a lot of pollen in the path and meeting the 3rd the pure in heart can see Dr Jose have learned to trust God's willingness to meet their needs and have experienced God's grace and overcoming that I saw Sickles now we serve as a resource for others Paul described this principle and saying Corinthians 1324 Praise be to God and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort who come 1st us and all our troubles so that we can comfort those. In trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God Job illustrated the point and then jump start the experience with multiple losses and his journey in seeking God for answers Joe came to realize came to realization Joe 15 Read my years have heard of you but now my eyes have seen you imagine the resources of comfort and hope. Once authorities perience was over Jochen been a resource of hope because he was pure in heart joke you see God in others benefited from what you call how well do we see God are how pure our motivations how willing are we to serve as resources of comfort and hope for others.